riddle n. (difficult and fun question) adivinhação sf |
Riddles are puzzles to be solved and can be great brain busters. They date all the way back to ancient Greece when they were used to demonstrate wit and wisdom. Later, they started being used in poetry and in the movies. Shakespeare, for example, used a lot of riddles in his works.
Try the following riddles. (Answers bellow)
(1) I cannot be felt, seen or touched;
Yet I can be found in everybody;
My existence is always in debate;
Yet there is a style of music named after me.
What Am I?
Yet I can be found in everybody;
My existence is always in debate;
Yet there is a style of music named after me.
What Am I?
(2) I’m sometimes full,
but I never overflow.
What am I?
What am I?
(3) No legs have I to dance,
No lungs have I to breathe,
No life have I to live or die
And yet I do all three.
What am I?
No lungs have I to breathe,
No life have I to live or die
And yet I do all three.
What am I?
(4) You heard me before,
Yet you hear me once more.
Then I die,
Yet you hear me once more.
Then I die,
‘Till you call me again.
What am I?
What am I?
(5) I’m the start of nothing
and the end of sun
and I’m also in the number one
What am I?
and the end of sun
and I’m also in the number one
What am I?
(6) My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.
What am I?
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.
What am I?
(7) I am hard enough to split a rock,
I am light enough to float above the treetops.
I can also be used for healing.
What am I?
I can also be used for healing.
What am I?
(8) I go up but at the same time go down.
Up towards the blue sky, and down towards the ground.
I’m present tense and past tense too,
Up towards the blue sky, and down towards the ground.
I’m present tense and past tense too,
so why don’t you come for a ride, just me and you!
What am I?
What am I?
(9) I am a three digit number.
My second digit is four times more than my third digit.
My first digit is seven less than my second digit.
What number am I?
My second digit is four times more than my third digit.
My first digit is seven less than my second digit.
What number am I?
(10) Violet, indigo, blue and green, yellow, orange and red; these are the
colors you have seen after the storm has fled.
What am I?
(11) A very pretty thing am I, fluttering in the pale-blue sky.
Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing.
What am I?
What am I?
(12) A father’s child, a mother’s child, yet no one’s son.
Who am I?
Visual Riddles
(1) What does this mean?
(2) What does this mean?
(3) What does this mean?
Answers: (1) A soul; (2) The moon; (3) Fire; (4) An echo; (5) The letter ‘n’; (6) A candle; (7) Water; (8) A seesaw; (9) 182; (10) A rainbow; (11) A butterfly; (12) Their daughter; Visual Riddles: (1) Blueberries; (2) Big deal; (3) Sandbox
Elisabeth Prescher é professora e autora de livros de inglês. Graduada em Letras pela Universidade Mackenzie e pós graduada em Educação Infantil pela FMU. Possui certificados de proficiência em inglês pelas universidades de Michigan e Cambridge. Passatempo favorito: escrever.
Contato: eprescher@gmail.com
